[barnabee]

It’s probably possible to have copyright laws that aren’t a net negative, but they’d be very different (perhaps they’d be very short and only restrict commercial use/exploitation), and we don’t.

I’m pretty confident the optimum is at or near or zero copyright restrictions and finding other ways to fund the creators. Which, yes, means accepting that free markets are not the best tool for every job.

[onli]

Copyright is the antithesis to free markets. It's based on state given monopolies for individual product. There are many examples for free markets being bad solutions, but this is not one of them. To the contrary, more free market for once would be good here - and also why one can only hope that big tech wins the fight described in the article, to maybe arrive at that change.